Through The Living Grub He/Him Posted November 17, 2023 Posted November 17, 2023 The question of changing out spikes has come up a lot, but it is a difficult job because most spikes are in a place where it would be lethal to remove. So my idea is you Forge the spike that is a different one, either you could have taken a different ability (you killed someone else instead of the person you actually killed) or you placed a different spike in that same bind-point. WoB Spoiler the_archduke (paraphrased) If the Lord Ruler captured Shai and gave her 100 days to craft a soulstamp that could turn an iron Hemalurgic spike into a steel Hemalurgic spike, could she do it? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes, but she would need a boost of power to do it. Affecting an Invested object is hard. the_archduke [Alternate wording from stormfather's report] (paraphrased) Can Shai change Hemalurgic spikes? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes, but it costs a lot of power and she wouldn't be able to do it alone. So if you have enough Investature you could do this. For simplicity in the origins of the metal, you can Soulcast your own and Forge the spike.
alder24 Posted November 17, 2023 Posted November 17, 2023 3 minutes ago, Xiahida said: The question of changing out spikes has come up a lot, but it is a difficult job because most spikes are in a place where it would be lethal to remove. So my idea is you Forge the spike that is a different one, either you could have taken a different ability (you killed someone else instead of the person you actually killed) or you placed a different spike in that same bind-point. WoB Reveal hidden contents the_archduke (paraphrased) If the Lord Ruler captured Shai and gave her 100 days to craft a soulstamp that could turn an iron Hemalurgic spike into a steel Hemalurgic spike, could she do it? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes, but she would need a boost of power to do it. Affecting an Invested object is hard. the_archduke [Alternate wording from stormfather's report] (paraphrased) Can Shai change Hemalurgic spikes? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes, but it costs a lot of power and she wouldn't be able to do it alone. So if you have enough Investature you could do this. For simplicity in the origins of the metal, you can Soulcast your own and Forge the spike. Possible but you do need a lot of investiture. But not every ability will work in the same binding point, in most known cases you're limited to powers of the same quadrant, so you can't replace your A-steel with F-gold for example. However it's very likely that once you Forge a spike to grant you a different power, this power won't be drawing investiture from the Shard like it used to do, you would have to provide external investiture yourself - just like Forging your spirit web to make you a Mistborn doesn't allow you to draw from Preservation, you need to invest yourself with Dor which will fuel your Allomancy instead. Spoiler Aneesh If there's a Forger like Shai who plausibly had an opportunity to ingest lerasium and become Mistborn, but she passed it up, could she create a stamp that makes her temporarily a Mistborn? Brandon Sanderson She would have to have access to enough Investiture to make that happen. The stamp saying, "Hey, I'm a Mistborn!" doesn't actually give her the Investiture to do that. She could rewrite her past so that she took that bead. She would not actually be able to use the power, until she got an infusion of Investiture, which could be done with a stamp in the right manner, but most of the time you're gonna have to have some external source. Basically you're gonna have to take a hit of Investiture, a large amount of it, and then use the stamp, and then it will feed on that to change you into basically any of the other magics. Aneesh Stormlight? Brandon Sanderson If you could get a hit of Stormlight, that'd work. The problem is, Stormlight's not easy to get off of Roshar, and it still is technically keyed. You could get it a lot more easily-- Stormlight would work fairly well, but what you really want is some pure, unkeyed Dor. That stuff, you could do all kinds of things with. But, you know, it's kinda dangerous. But that's the stuff you're gonna want, or something like unto it. Dragonsteel Mini-Con 2021 (Nov. 22, 2021) Overall it's possible, but it would require stupid amounts of investiture to make it work, which isn't very practical.
Through The Living Grub He/Him Posted November 17, 2023 Author Posted November 17, 2023 1 hour ago, alder24 said: Overall it's possible, but it would require stupid amounts of investiture to make it work, which isn't very practical. On this note, can you use the energy from Taladin's sun or can you somehow use the Dor while on Sel?
alder24 Posted November 17, 2023 Posted November 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, Xiahida said: On this note, can you use the energy from Taladin's sun or can you somehow use the Dor while on Sel? On Sel you might have to be in MaiPon to access Dor via Soulstamping, but I think that wouldn't be enough, looking at the way Brandon answered this question - it seems like you wouldn't be able to draw enough Dor via Soulstamp (just like a small Aon can pull a bit of Dor, while a large one quite a lot). Brandon specifically said about an external source, taking a hit of a lot of investiture and then using the Soulstamp, which would use the investiture you've taken. If you can get unkeyed Dor that would do it. Taldain's sun provides a little amount of investiture, and you need a lot of it. In other words it's your job to provide investiture for your Forged invested art to work.
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